preordain
verb (used with object)
to ordain beforehand; foreordain.
preordination
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a word derived from
preordain.
Example Sentences
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In 1966 the number of preordination seminarians was 8,361; by 1992 it had plummeted to 3,651, a 56.3% drop.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spontaneous generation seems almost as great a puzzle as preordination.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
In the chaos of preordination, and night of our forebeings.—
From New Poems by Francis Thompson
Your conclusion that all speculation about preordination is idle waste of time is the only wise one; but how difficult it is not to speculate!
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
All ascribe to his omnipotence the power to ordain or decree what shall come to pass—and where is the spirit that can demonstrate a shade of difference between such foreknowledge and preordination.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan
